Google set to release Chrome

**xwhatsit** · 10th September 2008, 14:08

Originally Posted by Winston001

Harruummpphh not enough buttons for me!

I like to have Stumbleupon, Google, New Tab, Secure Login, Wikipedia, Tinyurl, mmmm must be some others I can add too....

Hadn't thought about using F11 but while I'm only working in one tab, that is a good suggestion. The trouble is I tend to bounce around about 10 tabs when browsing.

But thanks, I'll give it a whirl. Always been annoyed by the real estate taken up by toolbars etc. If I'm on someones elses comp and get the chance I turn off or uninstall Yahoo Toolbar, AVG Toolbar, sometimes Google TB and any others I find. Usually the owner has no idea what they are or how they got there.

IMHO you're a bit too fond of that mouse

Whilst in F11, you can still change tabs with the normal shortcut keys (Ctrl-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab).

But at any rate, chuck on Classic Compact theme and that'll help things out a bit.

Anybody know what the story is with Windows and mouse drivers? I've noticed on my sister's laptop, among others, that certain apps (Chrome, as mentioned above, and Safari) will use the scroll wheel on a mouse, but not on a touchpad (Synaptics or other). Why? At the end of the day, aren't they sending the same windowing manager signals? Why should an app care -- or even know -- about where these button presses come from?

EDIT: After linking to Classic Compact, I just learned about a companion extension called Classic Compact Options, which lets you cut out the content-window border, use OS-native scrollbars (not that big a deal, not really any smaller, but seem to be a little faster perhaps), and -- the big one -- tuck all of your menus away into a new menu called `Menu'. Woot!

**Winston001** · 10th September 2008, 21:38

Originally Posted by xerxesdaphat

IMHO you're a bit too fond of that mouse

Whilst in F11, you can still change tabs with the normal shortcut keys (Ctrl-Tab, Ctrl-Shift-Tab).

But at any rate, chuck on Classic Compact theme and that'll help things out a bit.

Anybody know what the story is with Windows and mouse drivers? I've noticed on my sister's laptop, among others, that certain apps (Chrome, as mentioned above, and Safari) will use the scroll wheel on a mouse, but not on a touchpad (Synaptics or other). Why? At the end of the day, aren't they sending the same windowing manager signals? Why should an app care -- or even know -- about where these button presses come from?

EDIT: After linking to Classic Compact, I just learned about a companion extension called Classic Compact Options, which lets you cut out the content-window border, use OS-native scrollbars (not that big a deal, not really any smaller, but seem to be a little faster perhaps), and -- the big one -- tuck all of your menus away into a new menu called `Menu'. Woot!

Thanks Xerxes, loaded the Classic up and its certainly tighter.

Scrolling Synaptics - yes, been there, sworn about that.

Control Panel - Hardware - Mouse - Device Settings - Settings, then play around with the scrolling options. I can't remember exactly what I had to do but eventually I got it fixed. Extremely annoying but you'll get there. As to why this isn't a default setting, who knows.

**firefighter** · 5th February 2010, 11:27

Bump. Rather than starting a new thread, since it's been around a while now, firefox or chrome?

**SpankMe** · 5th February 2010, 12:18

I use both, but mostly Firefox.

I.E. on occasion.

Opera & Safari just for testing, but I don't know why anyone bothers with them.

**Slyer** · 5th February 2010, 12:22

Chrome is the best browser if you don't need the addons of Firefox.
I use both.

**firefighter** · 5th February 2010, 12:33

Originally Posted by Slyer

Chrome is the best browser if you don't need the addons of Firefox.
I use both.

To be honest i've never really used firefox. What are these all important add-ons you speak of that keeps you attached to it? (I know what add-ons are, just what's so special about the ones you need)

**SpankMe** · 5th February 2010, 12:38

Lots of really helpful ones. Try browsing thru them to see. Chrome has also just added add-ons to their browser.

**Tank** · 5th February 2010, 12:41

I have found chrome to be my browser of choice - faster than anything other browser on my mac.

Totally different to what I said when it was released at the start of the thread.

**Tank** · 5th February 2010, 12:42

Originally Posted by SpankMe

Lots of really helpful ones. Try browsing thru them to see. Chrome has also just added add-ons to their browser.

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/index.html <-there

**Slyer** · 5th February 2010, 12:46

Lots of handy things in addons, everyone uses their browser differently.
One of the best things about chrome is that it can spread the load of each tab over different processors and if something crashes on a tab it won't crash the whole program.
Your prediction was fair Tank, Google have had a history of releasing bloated apps but they really seemed to have turned that all around lately.

**TerminalAddict** · 5th February 2010, 13:23

chrome but still use FF for bug testing etc ... nothing beats firebug yet

**CookMySock** · 5th February 2010, 15:51

Just installed latest chrome. Gee its quick alright. Dunno why I'd go back to f/fox.

Steve

**SpankMe** · 10th February 2010, 10:14

I'm now using Chrome as my main browser. Got sick of FF taking forever to start up. Still a few annoyances in Chrome thou, like hitting backspace makes you go back a page.

**Tank** · 10th February 2010, 10:16

Originally Posted by SpankMe

I'm now using Chrome as my main browser. Got sick of FF taking forever to start up. Still a few annoyances in Chrome thou, like hitting backspace makes you go back a page.

Just tried that - you are right - but only if you are not in a editable field (ie - I just backspaced while typing this and it, well, backspaces).